How can one be expected to appreciate the subliminal metaphors within this overlong confection?
Hazy photography. Whimsy beneath an utterly repellant plot device. And a quartet of quite unappealing performers and characters.
What subliminal metaphors? I thought that they were all quite liminal
Why do you think that 124 mins is overlong?
Why do you think that there is any hazy photography? Were you watching a bad print?
Why do you think that the glueman is an utterly repellant plot device?
It's better than the original proposal that Colpeper should slash the girls' clothes
Why do you think that the four leading characters are all unappealing?
Or is this just a troll looking for a reaction?
Steve
I’m no troll nor am I one who sees this moving picture through the lens of nostalgia or patriotism. I can only respond to what I see in the rather darkish rectangle of this two hour long moving picture.
The insuperable barrier is the repellent Culpepper. Portman is an interesting actor— his igneous-rock-voice and his Noh-mask-visage helped make 49th Parallel a great movie but he isn’t a movie star to bring in the punters.
The repellent Culpepper makes this a typically-Powellian-undisciplined clash of genres —Peeping Tom and Tawny Pipit and a load of Pro-American propaganda.
The actress who plays the character ‘Alison Smith’ is another actress unlikely to bring in punters (she has the sex-appeal of Gerald Sim) and that non-actor who plays Sgt. Bob Johnson has the verbal suavity of Maxwell Frere’s Hugo.
So you don't like it. That's fine, it isn't compulsory to like every film, although a lot of people do like it.
It's surely wrong to compare ACT with another film like PT which was made 15 or so years *afterwards*
Steve